Is everybody happy?

Are we all thoroughly enjoying Lockdown Life?

In a number of ways I don’t actually want it to go back to the old normal.

I’m enjoying WFHing, although I’m massively busier than when I was WFOing.

There are a few aspects to WFHing that are enjoyable:

  • The relaxed dress code (he said, in his shorts, and tie/dye t-shirt)
  • Seeing the puppers whenever I look down
  • Being able to roam around the garden with the dogs whenever I get a rare break
  • Being able to turn away from the laptop and the near back-to-back calls to play guitar for just five minutes (I’ve just added a new chord to my repertoire and as a result I’m now practising Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty)
  • The fairly regular deliveries of drinks and food to my side (at work I’d have to go and make my own drinks! I know! How will I ever get used to that?)
  • The sound of childish laughter from downstairs (oddly, there was never much childish laughter in either my building specifically, or from across the campus generally).

I realise that WFHing isn’t an option for a great many people. I also realise that there are a number of people for whom WFH isn’t their cup of tea.

But for me? I think it’s very good. And I’d like this to be the new normal.

Or, at the very least, my new normal.

2 thoughts on “Is everybody happy?

  1. I’m enjoying WFH – saving myself a fortune in petrol, if nothing else.
    But, I am starting to struggle a little bit. Plenty of work to be doing, but I seem to be losing motivation and it doesn’t take much now to distract me from what I should be doing.
    I think my ideal new normal would be a couple of days in the office with three days at home, then reverse that the following week.

    1. That’s very good of you, breaking your future week up in that way. Motivation not a problem here, but balancing the good stuff (technical work) with the less good (read: interesting) stuff (governance) is a struggle I’d have whether I was at work or at home. Not really noticing a drop in commuting costs (6 miles door to door), but I would now normally be commuting on the bike and unfortunately she’s sitting in the garage…

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